[oclug] Vim Rulez (was Programming Wars - Final Results)

[Jon Earle]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> > "Regular editor":  <home><bksp> a       (2 keystrokes)
> > vi:                <esc><up><shift-j>i  (5 keystrokes)
> > vim:               <home>bksp>          (2 keystrokes! ;-)
> 
>     Yeah, what's the setting to enable that Vic? I think by default backspace
> at the beginning of a line does nothing just like Vi, but you can enable it.

I've got a weirdness going on in my Debian terminal.  If I use home/end, I
get odd characters, not cursor movement.  RH terminal is fine.

> 
>     And even better is Ex, the line editor that Vi is built on. Try this is
> notepad:
>     
>     Replace instance of "rocks" with "rules", but only if it appears
> immediately after "linux", at the beginning of the line.
> 
>     :%s/^linux rocks/linux rules

At the beginning of a line... is that what the hat does to the
expression?  My regex knowlege is lacking - any good resources to pick
that up?

Cheers!
Jon